Improvement in stocking and skirt holders



A. WARREN.

.Stocking and-Skirt Holder. A

Patented Feb. 2, 1875.

UNITED STATES PATfEelITLILQEEIoEo ANDREW WARREN, OF WALTHAM,MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN STOCKING AND SKIRT HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 159,291, dated February2, 1875; application tiled November 14, 1874.

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, ANDREW WARREN, of Valtham, in the county ofMiddlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improved Stockingand Skirt Holder, of which the following' is a specication:

The object of my invention is to produce a stocking and skirt holder ofa most simple form, and at very small cost, which can be attached anddetached quickly, and with great convenience, without requiring shiftingof other parts to secure and release the hold, as in the clamp, withsliding band over it, or working a tongue and catch, as in otherskirtholders in use, and my invention consists in bending a wire in sucha manner as to form the clasp a, the loop b, and the hook c, attached toa strap, all in one, as shown in the accompanying drawing, Figure l, andthis is accomplished by doubling a suitable wire in the middle of itslength in such a manner as to form anarronr spacefor a certainlength,which constitutes the clasp a; then bending the two sides of theclasp outward, so as to gradually widen the space so formed to the Widthof the strap 5 then returning and uniting the two ends ot' the wire in aright-angular direction to the longest dimensions of the clasp. Byattaching the thus united ends or vhooks to a suitable strap makes theholder ready for use.

In applying this holder, a small Aportieri of the stocking or skirt,either at the edge or any other convenient place, may be drawn into theenlarged opening or loop b of the holder, and then pushed downward intothe narrow space or clasp a, Where it is compressed and rmly held; or,in disen gagin g, the garment is pulled from the compressing-clasp ainto the loop b, thus freeing it from the holder.

The Whole operation of attaching and detaching the holder to and fromthe garment is extremely simple, and the parts not liable to get out oforder or to tear the garment.

The holder may be manufactured in other ways, as above indicated, as itmay be stamped out of a plate of steel or other suitable material.

I do not conne myself to the exact form as shown, as this may be more orless modified 5 but l What I claim as my invention is- A stocking andskirt holder made in one piece, and comprising the clasp a, which, bycompression alone, holds the garment, the loop b, and the bends c c.

. ANDREW WARREN. Witnesses:

M. S. G. WILDE, EDWARD K.MILL1KEN.

